Re: `#error' vs string literal

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Eggert
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ping. It'd be nice to know if this has a chance of being acceptable, or if I should just drop it. I installed this instead, as I think it's a bit clearer. 2006-04-06 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Warn

Re: autotest fails when pwd is testgroup directory

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:14:06AM CEST: I just noticed that AS_MKDIR_P already does AS_ERROR (fatal to the script) if it fails, Which sucks, frankly. Another badly designed interface that now is less generally usable than it could be. And we have to

Re: Avoid certain spurious `testsuite' rebuilds

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Paul Eggert wrote on Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:40:26AM CEST: Noah Misch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On my middle-aged PC running GNU/Linux, rebuilding `testsuite' takes 22 seconds. It takes 16 real seconds on my 4-year-old PC (2.4 GHz P4). Of that, 15 real seconds are spent running

Re: Small bug in status.m4?

2006-04-06 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 11:49:00AM -0700, Noah Misch wrote: I have no reason to think that interoperability with Cygnus configure matters at all. I haven't met a package under active development that uses it. Remove support for --help=recursive with respect to it, or simply leave it

Re: Tru64/OSF: BIN_SH revisited

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
We have to go back once more. * Stepan Kasal wrote on Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 08:35:12PM CET: On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 11:20:49AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: Yes, except you need to modify the Autoconf documentation accordingly. I checked in the version attached to this mail. The BIN_SH removal

m4_divert_once not needed in one place

2006-04-06 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, I committed the following trivial change. Stepan 2006-04-06 Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Do not use m4_divert_once inside m4_expand_once; it is redundant. Index: lib/autoconf/general.m4

Re: Avoid certain spurious `testsuite' rebuilds

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stepan, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 12:42:06PM CEST: On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 01:10:40PM -0700, Noah Misch wrote: We now trigger the TESTSUITE_GENERATED_AT update from check-local, so `make -C tests ./testsuite' may build a testsuite using out-of-date tests/ac*.at. I

Re: Tru64/OSF: BIN_SH revisited

2006-04-06 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:08:27PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I also think BIN_SH should be set in AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE, not in AS_SHELL_SANITIZE, but am less certain about that. yes, you are probably right. But it's even more clear that the DUALCASE really belongs there: the

Re: [Fwd: libtool AC_ARG_WITH and autoconf 2.59]

2006-04-06 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, regarding this patch: 2006-04-05 Howard Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] (trivial change) Noah Misch [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER): New macro. (AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_WITH): Adjust. * doc/autoconf.texi (Help Formatting):

Re: Avoid certain spurious `testsuite' rebuilds

2006-04-06 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:13:01PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: If any of $(AUTOCONF_FILES) have changed, with your change it won't be noticed, because nothing except $(stamp_tgat) depends on it, and $(stamp_tgat) is not a prerequisite to check-local. right. I apologize for the

Re: bad m4 quotation?

2006-04-06 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:20:47AM -0700, Noah Misch wrote: On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:14:10PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: Likewise. Given that the patch fixes real problems, I suggest installing it and waiting for the nicer fix later. I installed it. Thanks for the reviews. OK,

Fix a typo

2006-04-06 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, I noticed a five years old typo. Stepan 2006-04-06 Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] * tests/Makefile.am (maintainer-check-posix): s/POSIXLY_CORRECTLY/POSIXLY_CORRECT/ Index: tests/Makefile.am === RCS file:

Re: maintainer checks

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Paul Eggert wrote on Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 04:31:35AM CEST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) writes: Do we want a consistent when doing a regex for both characters, where order doesn't matter; which is different than doing a literal like IFS where order does matter? Yes we do.

Re: maintainer checks

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Paul, * Paul Eggert wrote on Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 02:37:28AM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - @grep -nE '\free \(\(' $(srcdir)/{lib,src}/*.[chly] \ + @grep -nE '\free \(\(' \ + $(srcdir)/{lib,src}/*.[chly]

Re: double-quoted command substitutions

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Noah Misch wrote on Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:13:22PM CEST: On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 07:55:53PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Mention the MSYS shell issue with double-quoted command substitutions of native commands. This looks

Remove the rest of the comment from _AC_CACHE_DUMP

2006-04-06 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, _AC_INIT_PREPARE sets up a trap which contains macro _AC_CACHE_DUMP. The is transformed by m4_bpatsubsts there. Among other things, all comments are removed. But because of problems with anchors in m4_bpatsubsts, the first line of the first comment is not removed. Well, but why are we

Re: _AC_CACHE_DUMP simplified

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Paul Eggert wrote on Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:43:25AM CEST: I like the new patch, and think it should be installed since it fixes some potential real gotchas. Some minor comments: +case $ac_val in #( +*${as_nl}?*) That '?' will cause the code to mishandle vars whose

Re: generated tests/*.at in cvs?

2006-04-06 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Ralf, thank you for the whole cleanup. One nit: AC_SEARCH_LIBS is ommitted in the chlog entry; I committed this: - (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): This needs an argument. + (AC_SEARCH_LIBS, AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Need an argument. Stepan

Re: Remove the rest of the comment from _AC_CACHE_DUMP

2006-04-06 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello again, I apologize that I have made a mistake in my previous mail: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 08:06:19PM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote: Well, but why are we trying to remove them? What about the following patch? I posted wrong patch, I meant to post the one attached below. Sorry for the

Re: Tru64/OSF: BIN_SH revisited

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stepan, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:25:25PM CEST: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:08:27PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I also think BIN_SH should be set in AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE, not in AS_SHELL_SANITIZE, but am less certain about that. yes, you are probably right. But

Re: Remove the rest of the comment from _AC_CACHE_DUMP

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stepan, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 08:27:28PM CEST: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 08:06:19PM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote: Well, but why are we trying to remove them? What about the following patch? What about the following comment above the part you change: # When interrupted

FYI: more updated files

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
I have applied these three patches. Cheers, Ralf * config/elisp-comp, config/install-sh, config/mdate-sh, config/missing, config/mkinstalldirs: Sync from Automake. * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm: Sync from Automake. *

Re: autotest fails when pwd is testgroup directory

2006-04-06 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Noah Misch on 4/5/2006 8:10 AM: Also, should we document AS_ERROR and friends in autoconf.texi? I don't have an opinion on this. Ralf mentioned AC_MSG_ERROR, but that has different semantics (exit autoconf, not configure). So, (in

Re: Autotesting - GNU Autoconf

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Randima, * Randima wrote on Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:13:43AM CEST: When writing test suites in testsuite.at for autotesting I would like to know how to access the test file names. Do we need to give absolute file names for input test files? If so, migrating to another development

Re: Autotesting - GNU Autoconf

2006-04-06 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: AT_DATA([experr], [[/import/eno/2/rnsr312/param-0.3/tests/syntaxerr:8.0: syntax error, unexpected TOKEN_ID_INT, expecting %% or int or intlist educt: Syntax error in file. ]]) AT_CHECK([educt --prettyprint /import/eno/2/rnsr312/param-0.3/tests/syntaxerr],[1],,experr,

Re: Possible zsh contention in pdfroff (Re: [autoconf] ensure a VPATH build)

2006-04-06 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:19:52PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: [...] then this is still relevant for configure scripts: they may, on other systems, choose this zsh version over the presumably-defective /bin/sh (and also invoke it with that name). well, I unless I missed

Re: Possible zsh contention in pdfroff

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stepan, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:07:46PM CEST: On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:19:52PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: [...] then this is still relevant for configure scripts: they may, on other systems, choose this zsh version over the presumably-defective /bin/sh

Re: Possible zsh contention in pdfroff

2006-04-06 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Ralf, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:41:39PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: | for as_shell in $as_candidate_shells $SHELL The user will have SHELL=/bin/zsh if she is running under zsh. thank you for enlightening me. Stepan ___ Autoconf

Re: configure sets CFLAGS or how to disable default CFLAGS='-g -O2' for gcc?

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 22:09 -0700, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 06:31:16PM -0600, Ed Hartnett wrote: Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you really want to do something like you do, you'd have to check the compilerm, if it accepts -q64 and if -q64 actually does

Re: A release with LIBOBJDIR?

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stepan Kasal wrote on Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 10:03:16PM CEST: On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 09:28:53PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: SK == Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SK But if we release versions with LIBOBJDIR, we will be bounded to SK support it in future releases, even in